I'll play my tiny little violin now:
Just lost all of my work for the past few weeks :( How sad…including a 3000 byte program in which somehow my backup got deleted…Xeda, that BatLib utility helper is going to be a little longer in coming…
D: Sorry to hear that :[ It stinks when that happens. When I was in tenth grade, I didn't have a computer, I or USB, and I was borrowing a school calc, but I was making some decent sized RPGs (10000 to 20000 bytes) and I made five of them. They all ended up getting lost and every attempt that I've made to recreate them has failed since :[ I know the feeling of losing beloved programs !_! I hope you can remember which programs you've lost!
Usually when I backup programs by grouping, I backup a copy, then when I am ready to backup again, I backup a second copy, then delete the first. I had one or two times where I deleted the first copy, then my calc crashed before I could back the rest up :[ Also, get GroupTool! There is a rare-ish OS glitch that will cause a group to not be able to be ungrouped properly. GroupTool has the proper coding to handle it (plus it can let you ungroup specific programs from inside a group). I should make something like that with support for more variables >.>
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Haha, honestly, what would be really helpful is if you made a program/hook/something that would automatically back up all the work you do on the calculator in the archive, almost like how a computer can automatically sync to the cloud. That way if things got deleted, you could just restore from the backup in archive. Actually, the crash happened while using zStart…when I downloaded it, both of the app files went to the calculator as zStart83, so I just chose the one that didn't have "83" in its name on the computer…but it still crashed :(
Hmm, yeah, zStart83 is for the 83+ (regular). But you also have to understand that the backup thing would not be a good idea, actually. The reasons are:
[+] Writing to archive is a complicated and slow process
[+] The flash chip can only take so many writes. Once a byte has been written to too many times, the sector of 64KB won't work anymore.
Some calc models do have extra RAM though that isn't affected by most RAM clears. On the newer TI-84+ and TI-84+SE, there is about 16KB extra RAM, some of the old ones have 96KB extra. The TI-83+SE has 96KB extra and the 83+ (regular) has no extra RAM. Some apps use this extra RAM though (like zStart).
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Well, on the the TI-84 SE, it might be worth it then :)
I thought that the newer models have no extra ram at all, while the older models had 96k or 23k.
The TI-83+ has 2 RAM pages (1 page=16KB=16384 bytes)
The TI-83+SE has 8 RAM pages (2 are used, 6 aren't)
The TI-84+ and TI-84+SE have at least 3 RAM pages (the OS needs the extra one for USB stuff and some MathPrint stuff). The older ones have 8 RAM pages, but TI stopped making them with that many.
I hope that clarifies things!
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GroupTool by Brandon Wilson? It's been screwing up for me recently…
All- and All+ don't work, unchecked things get checked again, and I get ERR: MEMORY issures when I have plenty of memory left. Should I reinstall it?
That is odd, I never had a problem with it and I used it for years. BrandonW says there are some bugs in it, though.
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Too bad… How do you back up? You might be able to save your data.
Actually, I had a lot of it backed up in groups and that worked for most of it since it was only a RAM clear, but unfortunately, there was some data that was lost as is almost inevitable :/ I have this great program called ArchiveUndelete which can recover programs in archive that had been deleted but weren't removed by a GarbageCollect yet. More than once have I been saved by that program :) But unfortunately, somewhere in my work for the day, I had deleted the backup for this program and my calculator had GarbageCollected only a few minutes ago :/
Aw, too bad. I was just about to suggest ArchiveUtil - which is almost the same as ArchiveUndelete lol.
Yeah, it's a great program :)
I wish you could store your program backups externally on a hard drive for the calculator…
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